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AI Trust and Safety Policy Lead: Writing the Lines Models Enforce
T&S policy leads write the operational standards that classifiers and human reviewers apply at scale; the craft is precision under ambiguity.
Adults & Professionals · Careers & Pathways · ~19 min read
The premise
Trust-and-safety policy leads turn vague principles into rules a 20,000-person reviewer org and a fleet of classifiers can apply consistently. Every loophole becomes a Verge story.
What AI does well here
- Translate principles into testable rules with examples
- Build tiered enforcement actions matched to severity
- Run reviewer calibration sessions against gold-set decisions
What AI cannot do
- Anticipate every novel harm pattern (Q-Anon, AI-generated CSAM, etc.)
- Make rules that satisfy free-expression maximalists and safety advocates simultaneously
- Substitute for an independent oversight board on contested calls
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